Cyclic Test of DP600 Steel under Tension-Compression Load for Different Pre-Strain Levels

Modeling sheet metal forming operations requires understanding of the plastic behavior of the sheet metal along the non-proportional strain paths. Measurement of hardening under reversed uniaxial loading is because of its simplicity very effective mechanical test to achieve several important features of material behavior. With the reversed uniaxial loading can be examined features as Bauschinger effect, work hardening stagnation, permanent softening etc., which are necessary to defined kinematic hardening in the numerical simulations. The biggest problem of uniaxial reversed loading is buckling of the sheet metal during the compression phase. In this article is described development of the simple fixture, used for the reversed uniaxial loading and results of tension-compression test for the steel DP 600 in various pre-strain levels are specified.